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John Singleton

March 2024

The Bonython is full of lush tropical plants.

Singo sells famed Paddington complex for more than $30m

Annie Todd, the estranged wife of Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, will take ownership of The Bonython office complex in Paddington.

  • Larry Schlesinger and Bonnie Campbell

February 2024

John Singleton purchased the former art gallery in 1976.

Singo puts famed Paddington office complex Bonython up for sale

John Singleton purchased what was the former Bonython Gallery Sydney in 1976 and converted it into office suites and headquarters for his SPASM ad agency.

  • Larry Schlesinger

December 2021

The cover of AFR Magazine’s summer issue: Singo at Shells, with its views to the Mokulua Islands.

At home with John Singleton (80 and not out) in Hawaii

Singo has turned his love affair of 50 years with the Aloha State into a new venture.

  • Fiona Carruthers
Saddles Restaurant at Mt White will soon have a “matching” lodge built across the road by its entrepreneur owner John Singleton.

John Singleton’s next project, a luxury lodge on the NSW Central Coast

Like many Rich Listers, Singleton has taken his earnings from business and ploughed them into real estate.

  • Fiona Carruthers
John Singleton at home in Hawaii in September with his custom Steinway piano.

Singo up and about four days after heart failure

Rich Listers don’t tire out: they just buy more expensive homes in exotic locations - and fund hospital cardiac units in case they need them one day.

  • Fiona Carruthers
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August 2021

John Singleton, Bob Hawke and Blanche D’Alpuget at the Rosehill Races in 2000 after their horse, Belle Du Jour, won the Golden Slipper.

How Singo turned advertising into a blood sport

With his rags to riches story, AFR Rich Lister John Singleton could have been the original Don Draper – and it was The Australian Financial Review that first discovered him.

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  • Fiona Carruthers

April 2021

VGI Partners' Robert Luciano.

David Kingston’s ludicrously tiny VGI shareholding

Kingston had a lot to say in February 2013, when Mark Carnegie bought 0.15 per cent of Fairfax Media.

  • Joe Aston

February 2020

Retail billionaire Brett Blundy has jumped onto Queen's Road Capital's share register.

Billionaires back offshore natural resources play

It’s usually counter-cyclical investments that make the most money.

  • Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd

January 2020

'Lots of potential': Dominic Barba bought the Harbour View Hotel from Brian Perry for $12m last year.

Following Singo and Co: Thirst for pubs to rise again in 2020

With increasing profitability and lower interest rates, the pub real estate sector is expected to boom this year.

  • Larry Schlesinger

December 2019

A company owned by Gerry Harvey and John Singleton (with Mark Carnegie) has 26 years left on a lease to run Moore Park's Entertainment Quarter.

Gerry Harvey's mystery $120m investment

At Moore Park, a company owned by Harvey, John Singleton and Mark Carnegie has 26 years left on a lease to run the Entertainment Quarter.

  • Myriam Robin
Manboom claims QMS owes it between $150 million and $200 million.

QMS in $200m legal stoush with Singleton, Carnegie and Whyte

QMS is preparing for an ugly court battle with John Singleton, Mark Carnegie and Robert Whyte in the midst of its takeover by private equity giant Quadrant.

  • Max Mason

October 2019

The Elephant Hotel is the remaining Queensland freehold pub owned by the fund

Singo's pub fund to sell Brisbane's Elephant Hotel

It is the last freehold pub for sale by the once $300 million property fund established by John Singleton, Geoff Dixon and Mark Carnegie.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand starred in the movie A Star Is Born in 1976.

Rich Lister rock: Singo's singalong with Kris Kristofferson

Rich Listers don't die – they just fly in 83-year-old rockers.

  • Fiona Carruthers

September 2019

John Singleton has accepted Nine's offer.

Singleton sells Macquarie stake to Nine, Carnegie expected to follow

John Singleton has signed over his stake in Macquarie Media, Mark Carnegie is expected to follow. But Geoff Wilson is still fighting for a better offer.

  • Max Mason
In May 2015, Cowin made a rare appearance as front-page news after getting into a mock fight with his friend John Singleton.

Singleton, Wilson at odds over Macquarie deal

Investment veteran Geoff Wilson is pushing ahead with plans to leverage a better takeover price for radio broadcaster Macquarie Media, after key investor John Singleton publicly backed a buyout offer.

  • Liam Walsh
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Wilson Asset Management Chairman Geoff Wilson.

Geoff Wilson lashes Macquarie board on Nine deal

WAM has increased its holding in Macquarie to around 4.7 per cent, or 8.1 million shares, since Nine's takeover offer was made.

  • Max Mason
John Singleton, left, and Gerry Harvey go way back.

Harvey, Singleton donate $1m to medical bus

The big question this week is what does one Rich Lister get the other for a major milestone birthday?

  • Carrie LaFrenz

August 2019

2GB host Ray Hadley.

Macquarie shares could fall if Nine takeover falls through

The deal will largely come down to three shareholders: Nine, ad guru John Singleton and Mark Carnegie.

  • Max Mason

PwC in Macquarie Media shareholders' corner

Nine boss Hugh Marks is closing in on the slice of news and sports radio broadcaster Macquarie Media the ever-growing media company doesn't already own.

  • Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald

April 2019

The Elanora Hotel had been owned by the Cusick family for more than 50 years.

John Singleton buys Gosford's Elanora Hotel for $25m

The family of the late Gosford Race Club chairman Malcolm Cusick had owned the Elanora Hotel for more than 50 years.

  • Larry Schlesinger

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